Prosperity Built on Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #220

Does prosperity require competition and capitalism? What if we create prosperity built on sustainability and cooperation instead? If we agree this is a worthwhile idea, working together we could easily combine sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economic design, social architecture, and even fulfilled living practices to provide a self-sufficient living model that would eliminate almost all living expenses and provide a better way of living than the way most people are experiencing now. We could further share this model as an eco-tourism destination to provide revenue for expansion without people having to work traditional jobs; the experience of how they were living would be enjoyable enough that people would want to vacation and visit. This is the foundation of One Community’s model for world change and we’re open sourcing it as a model for living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 11th, 2017 edition (#220) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Prosperity Built on Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #220

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @:35

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:19

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:20

• Created the styles options image for the Pipe Furniture page and several single-image renders (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 38th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 16th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped with her 2nd round of website content for the eco-laundry page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:17

• Created another 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:43

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:33

• Completed 50% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building (see below)
• Working with Ashwin Patil, we continued developing the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 6th week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:18

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

The core team continued creating the Open Source Murphy bed furniture step-by-step instructions. As shown here, we revised the layouts, added new pages, new icons, and new photos.

Continued Creating the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Step-by-Step Instructions – Click for Page

Also our core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we added in barrels, the central platform, roof hatch entrance, and the ladder.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-zero Bathroom for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 72 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was finishing all 4 of these final render views of the northwest living wing of the village:

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Bathroom – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking Down – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking Northwest – Click for Page

Cob Village Concept Render – West Wing Looking South – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 44th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was new textures for the North landscaping area and beginning final-render-perspective testing.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 26th week of work, focusing on Zone 7 designs and visualizations, as shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures. What you see here are a combination of the art structure renders and a few screenshots from the weekly collaborative call.

Continued with Updates to Tree House Village Furniture and Building Textures – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team created the styles options image for the Pipe Furniture page and several single-image renders. We also added all current images to the web page with text and descriptions, hover text, click to enlarge options, and center formatting.

Created the Styles Options Image for Pipe Furniture Page and Several Single-Image Renders – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 38th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued modeling and initial lighting testing within the Social Dome.

Continued with the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. What you see here are pictures of this week’s updated electrical overview and Ramya and Shubham‘s PV Solar micro-grid and wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes.

Continued Working on the City Center Electrical Design and Tutorials – Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week’s focus was researching how a climate battery works and can be included in our designs. You can version 1.0 of Aravind’s report here.

Continued Working on the City Center Basement Heating and Cooling Details – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 16th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing more content for the moisture control and cinder block wall sections, as shown here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped with her 2nd round of website content for the eco-laundry page, updating the text formatting, replacing all the images with higher quality ones, and adding click to enlarge options wherever needed.

Helped Create Second Round of Website Content for Eco-Laundry Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team created another 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, for the bulk goods sections, as you see here.

Created Additional Images for Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This last week the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Creativity Lesson Plan and the Emotional States Lesson Plan. This brings us to 26 of 52 finished, which is 50% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included using a different view point for rendering, and applying several different projected images, as seen here.

Continued Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 50% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page.

Completed 50% of Final Edits to Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit

Working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) , we also continued developing the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate. This week we finished the City Center search engine and another round of edits and revisions for the Earthbag Village search engine.

Continued Helping Develop the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for City Center

Additionally, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) completed their collective 6th week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus was continued implementation and coding for the simple authentication model and adding the ability to log time entries.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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